xiv, 15-427 p. plates, ports., fold. map, facsims. 25 cm.
Notes
"First edition."
LCHS copy "number 145 of a special limited and numbered edition which has been autographed by the authors."
Bibliography: p. 415-418.
Summary
A letter of marque and reprisal was a government license that authorized a private person, known as a privateer or corsair, to attack and capture vessels of a nation at war with the issuer. The author states that the activities of the Baltimore privateers "were so many and so varied that, taken as a whole, they represent a cross section of all privateering at the time."
Expansion as a cause for war -- Economic depression as a cause for war -- The nation's honor and the party's welfare -- Pennsylvania and the economic coercion -- Party solidarity as a motive for war -- Pennsylvania at war.
The constitution and register of membership of the general Society of the War of 1812, June 1, 1908. Organized September 14, 1814. Re-organized January 9, 1854. Instituted in joint convention at Philadelphia, Pa., April 14, 1894
William S. Dudley, editor, Michael J. Crawford, associate editor ; with a foreword by John D.H. Kane, Jr.
Place of Publication
Washington
Publisher
Naval Historical Center, Dept. of Navy,
Date of Publication
1985.
Physical Description
714 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
Chapters: The Maritime Causes of The War - 1805-1812/ Naval Operations in the Atlantic Theater,January to August 1812/ The Northern Lakes Theater,June to December 1812/ The Gulf Coast Theater, February to December 1812/ The Atlantic Theater, September to December 1812.
Summary
This volume is presented as the first of a three-volume documentary history of the United States Navy in the War of 1812. As such, it contains selected documents which display the flavor and substance of maritime warfare between the United States and Great Britain during the period 1812 1815. We have drawn heavily on naval records held by the National Archives and Records Service. To these we have added others reflecting a variety of viewpoints: the plans and reports of British naval officers who engaged our forces, newspaper columns of the day, statements of civilian officials who were charged with direction of the war, and the papers of private citizens who chose to go to war for personal profit though at great risk. The substance of this book is the life of the navy. It includes documents on such diverse subjects as the causes of the war from a maritime perspective, the navy's preparedness for operations. the recruitment of seamen and marines, the construction and filling out of ships. the treatment of sick and wounded men , questions of insubordination, incompetence , and jealousy among officers and men. matters relating to the supply of food, drink, clothing, armaments, and spars for navy crews and ships, the operations of privateers, as well as navy warships, and the plight of men held as prisoners of war. In short , these pages will show the American navy as a human institution, with all the nobility and frailty that phrase implies. [from the Preface]
Clifton and Shirley Caldwell Texas heritage series ; no. 10
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-206) and index.
Contents
Galveston Tri-Weekly News introduction to the Note-Book -- 1. The Battle below New Orleans -- 2. Ship Island, the Pearl River, and Lake Pontchartrain -- 3. Pensacola -- 4. New Orleans -- 5. The Mississippi River -- 6. Baton Rouge, Plaquemine, and Donaldsonville -- 7. The Return to Pensacola and Ship Island -- 8. The Capture of Galveston -- 9. Matagorda Bay -- 10. The Battle of Galveston -- 11. The Capture of U.S.S. Hatteras -- 12. A New Commander -- 13. Mississippi Sound -- 14. The Swamps of Louisiana -- 15. Butte a la Rose -- 16. Mobile Bay -- 17. The Return to the Teche Country -- 18. The Battle of Sabine Pass -- 19. Letters from Prison.
Summary
Information about the inner workings and day-to-day life aboard U.S. Naval vessels patrolling the Gulf of Mexico and the major river systems of the Trans-Mississippi.
Battle field and prison pen, or Through the war, and thrice a prisoner in rebel dungeons. A graphic recital of personal experiences throughout the whole period of the late war for the Union
